Lib. i. Of the Hiftorieof Plants, aqj 



was 



6efi 



tJtbi Samuel the 



ill), And not with the oyle of tf/i: which oile is called in the Arabian tongue AlkeL 



•Wr!i^fonneof//0£/!wteftifieth. Mor^nnpr a ^rMm« R ^kk.« A r>,r,....L 5* * .*. 



faying,wba: s ^Hereunto A^ Laehijb rnaketh anfwer in Ghcmara, faying, Kik is nothing elfe 

 but/»*hisK»kaijon. And that this is true, it appeareth by that name Kfe* which the Antient 

 GreekcPhy/uions,and the .Egiptiansvfedj which Grecke word commeth of the Hebrew word 

 Kik. Hereby it appcareth,that the old writers long agoe called this plant by the true and proper 

 name. But the old Latine writers knew it by the tataeCueariit4 t which euidently is manifested bv 

 ■nhiftorvwhich Saint ^«?«///»trecordethinhisEDiftlern.^a;ni- r<u...L^^.£.&L. . / 



an hiftory which Saint Auguji 



u " ,IH "V " ~-»" ;-->,-- - "7, ™ v> \. ^**" Jt it7 ™^wnere in effect fie writeth 



thus 5 That name */%w is of fmall moment,yet fo fmall matter caufed a great tumult in Africa 

 Fofon a rimeaceitaincBiihoD hauine anoccafionrn mrrp^i- «f »u:„...u:.t- .- • .. .' 



; w * ~' . 7, J \ y :° ----—« *~ *«^*i ui mis wnicn is mentioned in the 



fo ( i chapter of m« his propbefie (in a collation or fermon, which he made in his cathedral! 

 church or place o afTembly)faid, that this plant was called Cuwrtita, a Gourd becaufe itencr^ 

 fed w fo great a quantitie s in fo fliort a ^,orelfe (faithhe) it is called //^Vponthenouekv 

 and vntrui . h ol this his doclnnc ;,thc people were greatly offended, and thereof fudJenly arofe a tu 

 milt and hurly burly , fo that the fiithop was enforced to goe to the Iewes, to aske their udlel 

 ■ent « touch mg the name of this plant. And when he had receiued of them the true name whkh 

 was A ihuert, he made his open recantation, and confefled his errour and »« ,„fti„ «,' r lr 

 filfifiero: theholy Scripture. * The Greekes called this plantTo ^Jf ^> 7 f^^r^i 

 the fmulitude that the feed hath with thar infeA. ,» J^TtSu * "*" <**">»»*& reafon of 



«J The Nature. 



f 



tn 



eS^^^^sSr beI,y>and caufeth vomit ' drawin ^ m ™y ^°* -d a 



The oyle that is made or drawne from the fo*A U mHJ *n «• • . „ 

 nardnefTe and lcuruinefTe gotten by itch. 



B 



good 



good againft extreme coldneffe of the 



C 



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D 



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hap. 135?. 0/ Spurge. 



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U The Defer iptiott. 



the 



- . the ftalkes are befet with (3 n f rP° n . one <"«* root > of a wooddy fubftance : and 

 W fl0U fr are y c,1 ^A.and^o?oVf^-S^ leaues like vnto theleaues of Flax! 

 S^rge After the floures come frknp?ef^ htt . le d u lft « or Saucers like the common kinde of 

 . 2 Th efecondkindefcaZf£, £ Ie fe ^V*sm the other Tithymales. COt 



wdim ftalkes of a foot high • th/iT, * ?. g r kcc P in g "me with the Sunne) hath fund™ 



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4 

 narrower 



The (M, is , ikc ,. . . . . ~ "" u lnc ° tn «°< Hi. 



Spates*! StSff'"^'^^ * !-«« 



thofe of 



nd 



Tt mentioned 



